It is his last program aired in Edmonton and his last live words heard on Edmonton radio. As you'll see further down the thread, Chuck's voice was heard on ads for some time to come after that.

I got to interview, by phone, Chuck not long after that time. Although I never wrote it down, I still remember his story of visiting Edmonton around 1997. He went to the car rental desk and the lady behind the counter immediately knew who he was.

That helped convinced Chuck that he still had Name Recognition here and the next thing we all knew, he was on CFRN-AM doing Afternoon Drive on their Nostalgia format: Nat King Cole, etc. He hardly had a chance to turn around before he was doing Mornings on the new Oldies format, where the rest of the day was simulcast from CISL Vancouver, with local Edmonton commercials, jingles, promos and PSAs. I'm not sure if it began that way, but the 9-10am hour was jockless.

One of the most colourful personalities in Edmonton’s broadcasting industry has died.

Chuck Chandler worked in many Canadians cities, but spent the bulk of his years behind a microphone in Edmonton.

He worked at 630 CHED from 1973 to 1979. For part of those years, he hosted the TV show Disco Daze at CITV from 1975 to 1978. Chandler also spent a few years in the early 1980s as the announcer on the TV show Let’s Make A Deal.

Corus Entertainment vice-president of radio west, Brad Phillips, worked with him at CHED.

“They were incredible times. This is a great business, radio, but that was truly a memorable era because it was all about enjoying yourselves on the radio and enjoying yourselves off the radio.

“It was a big family and Chuck was one of the leaders of that family in those days.”

Phillips described Chandler as “an amazing, bigger than life broadcaster.

“Just one of those guys that — in that era, of AM radio music on AM radio, those were big personalities and Chuck was one of the biggest. I’m really sad to hear this news.”

Former CHED news anchor Randy Kilburn remembers their time together fondly.

“He was one of the absolute best broadcasters in this city when it came to doing radio. He got into his other element of doing television.

“Chuck knew more about disco music than probably anybody else in North America because he did that show.”

Retired Edmonton broadcaster Marty Forbes says Chandler was one of the best announcers Edmonton has ever seen.

“An absolutely amazing guy. His death is a big loss to the fraternity of broadcasters that has been together for so many years.”

His friend and former coworker, Keith James Jr., says one of Chandler’s favourite achievements was spending two days broadcasting in a hotel room in Montreal with John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their Give Peace a Chance event.

“Anyone who has heard him on the air has heard him tell that story one time of another.”

James says Chandler was a private man off-air, but loved being recognized.

“He was happy recently when one of his caregivers recognized him from his Winnipeg radio days.”

Chandler had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer several months ago, but suffered a fall this week and needed surgery. His family says while he survived the surgery, his strength was diminished.

In an email Tuesday to friends, Chandler’s son Troy said caregivers report his father’s death was peaceful.

Dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Chuck Chandler...a young man in May, 1969 when he spent most of a week with John Lennon & Yoko Ono at their bed-in in Montreal. He played "lead coffee table" on "Give Peace a Chance". Green Lights pal!

Note the Identity Theft incident in Dale Patterson's bio of Chuck on rockradioscrapbook.ca:

He was one of Canada's most colourful and well-travelled jocks.

Chuck Chandler jocked all over Canada - from Halifax in the east to Victoria in the west - and many points in between. Perhaps the biggest coup of his four-decade career came in 1969 when he and fellow CFOX deejay Roger Scott broadcast live from the John Lennon/Yoko Ono bed-in at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel (that's him slapping a table-top on "Give Peace a Chance").

The man born Charles Paul Rodney Nahumko got his media start in 1964 as a cameraman at CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek, B.C. Before long the native of Northhampton, England, switched over to the radio side at CJDC-AM. After that, he jocked at a dizzying array of stations, including CJCH Halifax, CJCA Edmonton and CFOX in the '60s, to CFRW Winnipeg (as PD-DJ), CKGM Montreal and CHED (with Homemakers Hitline) and CFRN Edmonton in the '70s. The '80s saw him back at CFRN with other Edmonton gigs at CKXM-FM, CKNG-FM and CITV (with Four O'Clock Rock). He ended the '80s and began the '90s at CKST Langley, B.C., then moved to CKDA Victoria where you can hear him below. Chandler transitioned into the new millennium at CFRN, before moving to CHQT Edmonton then finally closing out his radio career at one final Edmonton stop, CKRA-FM in 2008.

Chandler moved to Spain, returning to Victoria when an identity theft wiped out his life savings. He died November 28, 2017 of lung cancer at the age of 73.

As for the birthplace in England, I believe that was part of his Chandler identity. He mentioned it on the air at CHQT while imitating his mother saying "Charles" with a British accent.

Well, it looks like Chuck really was born in England to a mother with a British accent.

This from page 11 of the Winnipeg Tribune, dated December 19, 1944:

Paul Nahumko was on hand to meet his wife and babies himself. He returned home from overseas last May. He boasted his daughter, Pauline, who will be four in February, was the first Canadian baby born in England during this war.

"And Charles was the youngest baby on the boat from England," said Mrs. Nahumko. Charles, two months old, lay asleep in her arms.